Oh the weather outside if frightful

First full day at work today and I LOVED IT! 🙂

I had a ‘proper Mum’ spell first thing this morning of trying to get D&S dressed while drinking tea with one hand and checking emails with the other and persuading them to eat toast – and that was with Ady here too! Lucy lives about a five minutes drive from me in one direction and the library is less than a five minute drive from me in the other (I will walk to work when the weather is better and the children are totally OK with me being away and I won’t need to be able to get home in moments). So I collected Lucy, Richard and Rebecca just after 8.30am, dropped them off back here and then went on to work. I arrived with a good five minutes to spare and wouldn’t have wanted more really, but living so near means you almost have to cut it fine which runs the risk of something happening to delay me. All fine this morning though :).

I did lots more basic training stuff – some working on the counter and talking to real customers – didn’t realise how much I’d missed that actually, it was lovely 🙂 and lots of tidying shelves and putting books back. Learnt some more jargon, discovered where various other things are kept and got the hang of a few more behind the scenes type processes such as transfering stuff between branches and so on. Also discovered that not only do I not pay fines any more I also don’t pay charges for reserving or ordering in stuff or the lending charges for films and music – hurrah! Spent a very happy half hour tonight reserving loads of books, films and cds through the website and brought home a film for the kids today. 🙂

At lunchtime I nipped to the Arts centre where Tarly’s party is being held to collect the keys for the hall, browsed the local charity shops, had a celebratory sausage roll from the bakers and did a bit of food shopping for party food. Working in town is going to be great for getting the extra food bits and pieces each week and will mean I can use a greengrocers for fruit and veg rather than the supermarkets :). So nice (and yeah ok, shallow) to be doing the lunchtime reapplication of lipstick before returning to work and hearing the workmate banter between the other staff knowing that it won’t be long before I’m one of them and joining in with it all. 🙂

I focussed on getting to know some of the other staff a bit better today too. I realised pretty quickly on Tuesday that although they are certainly not unfriendly they are not great at putting the big effort in to start conversations about stuff or doing much other than smiliing at me a lot. So I got chatting to one about Home Education, another about her upcoming wedding and just asked them lots of questions about them to get them talking to me. Felt like I made some inroads so that was good. 🙂

The weather has been just awful here all day with the wind howling and the rain lashing (although obviously we didn’t make the news for tornados like they did 50 miles up the road!) and it’s still blowing and blustering out there now.

Lucy stayed til lunchtime with the children, I rang and spoke to them both. Scarlett sounded so grown up I asked her if she was being a good boy as I was convinced I was talking to Davies. That earnt me a ‘It’s me Mummy, Scarlett!’ 😆 😳 but they were happy and obviously in very caring and capable hands. 🙂 Dad came over and took over after lunch and Ady and I arrived home within moments of each other. They’d been eating Monster Munch when I got in so weren’t remotely interested in tea so they had a bowl of banana custard each, Dad left and Davies and Ady played a car racing xbox game together while Tarly and I did some bead threading. I am relieved, thrilled and so happy that they are so unbothered about me working so far. I’m sure there will be times when it is not so smooth but early indications are all very positive. 🙂

Tomorrow I have all the last minute stuff to sort out for the party but I have all day to do it in and I’m looking forward to an at home baking day and even more looking forward to the party on Saturday. 🙂